IRS Business Support Officer

Location: Hull and East Yorkshire

IRS Business Support Officer# External Careers## IRS Business Support Officer Apply:
HU7:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date: 20 November 2026 (14 days left to apply):
JR0001367
** Number of Vacancies:
** 1
* * Time Type:
** Full time
** Worker Type:
** Regular
* * Proposed Interview Date:
** Tuesday, December 8, 2026
** Hours of Work:
** 37
* * Hiring Manager:
** Sally Taylor
** Contact Number:
*** Job Description

Summary:

** This is a full time permanent position.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Sally Taylor, Service Support Team Leader on  or     ROLE AND PURPOSE    To provide an effective administrative support service for Children, Young People and Family Services to ensure that all Hull City Council Children Looked After Care Reviews, Child Protection Conferences and Local Authority Designated Officer Allegation Management Meetings are organised.
To ensure that the meetings take place with the relevant information, paperwork is chased, collated and processed, meeting regulatory requirements and statutory deadlines. After meetings have taken place distributing recommendations and minutes within strict deadlines.
To initiate on issues and actions which arise following meetings that have taken place ensuring that children, young people, families and carers immediate needs are met.
To provide a range of high quality and efficient minute taking when required for Local Authority Designated Officer Allegation Management meetings, Child Protection Conferences and complex Strategy meetings. Liaising with staff members and providing a support service to all members of the Hull City Council Adoption Team, , the Independent Reviewing Service and the Local Authority Designated Officer, working to strict deadlines.
To provide an efficient, accurate and responsive professional practice customer focused administration support to Children, Young People and Families Services ensuring compliance with procedures and practices to support the delivery of efficient front-line services.
You will be part of a team who will design, develop and implement administrative systems which support the changing needs of the service over time, and you will work alongside the Independent Reviewing Service Managers in order to produce the reports requested by either the Local Authority or Ofsted.
This role needs someone who is well organised and enthusiastic, who can pay close attention to detail to support a fast paced and busy assertive team.
** PRINCIPAL

ACCOUNTABILITIES :
** 1. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults.
2. Statutory Obligations - Responsible for undertaking a range of administration duties of a complex nature, convening and co-ordinating complex and highly confidential Children Looked After Care Reviews, Child Protection Conferences, Allegation Management Meetings and complex Strategy Meetings, which can be of a distressing nature and requires a degree of interpretation and initiative. Involving prior preparation such as collating/preparing documentation, communicating the importance to Children’s Social Care staff, GPs Health Liaison, Foster Carers, Education, Children, and service users using persuasion and negotiation skills to obtain completed information which is required to hold such reviews/meetings.

Distributing documentation and initiating follow-up action after meetings working towards statutory and procedural deadlines.
3. Provides a high quality and efficient first point of contact and ensures communication channels between colleagues, members of the public or other agencies are effective. Meets and greets visitors, children, young people, families, colleagues and other agency professionals. Communicates respectfully and effectively with…